Hardy the Physician : Medical Aspects of the Wessex Tradition /

Was Thomas Hardy clinically depressed or just syphilitic? Was Egdon Heath imbued with melancholic vapours? And does this explain why many of his characters suffered from depression, took their own lives or developed homicidal tendencies? This book by a rural GP explores these and many other medical...

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Main Author:	Fincham, Tony (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:	Literature. British and Irish Literature. Fiction. Nineteenth-Century Literature. British literature. Literature, Modern > 19th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book